Thanks greatly, Charles! I guess I'd better call and order me a Jupiter. I have a Palstar manual transmatch that should suffice. I'll check out the Donner gear, as well!
Do you have experience with 'SkySeeper'?; it faired quite well in an QST comparison. Thanks again! 73 DE W1YB Johnne --- In [email protected], Chas Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my opinion the Argonaut would not be adequate. You can run up to 40 watts without adding a blower with the Jupiter so you have greater flexibility of operating RF powers. I have run mine on PSK31 continually up to 40 watts with no problem. Ten-Tec provides a quiet fan that installs to the heat sink on both the Jupiter and Orion should you chose to run 100 watts AFSK which I use with my Orion. The fan they provide as an accessory for the Argonaut is noisy but it's required for full power output of 20 watts, otherwise you can run only 10 watts or so. I would purchase the Jupiter with the antenna tuner installed. Argonaut doesn't have a built in antenna tunner. Argonaut, Jupiter and Orion come with an accessory cable for convenient digital mode hook up. You would still need an interface. I use a Donner interface made especially for Ten-Tec rigs but have also used RigBlaster Plus. See their respective web sites for more information. > > Charles, K0CW > > Johnne Ables <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I mentioned in a previous post (For which I was adequately > chastised off-group) I am interested in utilizing the new digital > modes. I am interested in a new TenTec rig. Is the 20 watt Argonaut > 516 adequate or would the Jupiter be a better choice? The Orion is > not in my 'blue-collar budget'. > > Anyone with TenTec digital experience around? > > Thanks! > > 73 DE W1YB Johnne > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
